You looked - literally, “a looking.” It is as if he said that it has all been one constant looking, for much, (for increase, the re…

You looked for much. —Literally, There has been a turning about for much.

I did blow upon it —tha…

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, a…

Here the Prophet relates again that the Jews were deprived of support, and that they, in a way, pined away in their distress because they robbed Go…

You looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little
They looked for a large harvest, and very promising it was for a w…

Observe the sin of the Jews, after their return from captivity in Babylon. Those employed for God may be driven from their work by a storm, yet the…